Pub with a special spirit

MYSTERY: Who's the ghoul captured in spooky snapshot?

A pipe-smoking old man who spookily appeared in a pub photo could be a ghost, according to regular drinkers at the bar.

Adrian O'Brien, who took the photo on Arthur Guinness Day in Wicklow, is adamant there was no similar man present when he clicked his camera.

Locals at The Gin Mill pub in Arklow do not recognise the phantom punter and have no recollection of seeing the man on the day.

Adrian has strongly refuted any suggestion that the pictures have been tampered with.
"The pictures are 110pc genuine," he said. "The leading expert on photography in the
world is free to come down and examine the photos. They haven't been touched.

Examined
 
"It would have been difficult in the past to super-impose an image on to a photograph, but
it can be done nowadays.

"Why would I bother in conjuring this up on a computer when anyone with knowledge of
computers and photography could do it

"We have the raw files, which can be examined by any labs."

Meanwhile, staff at the pub are especially interested in locating the ghostly figure, to bar
him for smoking in the premises, as the man appears to have a pipe.

"There is a blown-up copy of the photo in the bar and nobody has the faintest idea of who
 it is," said a barmaid, who was working on the day the photo was taken, September 24.

"The plan was to take a photo to mark the occasion. It's so weird.

"I certainly didn't serve him on the day."

Mr O'Brien, a photographer, admitted to be shaken up about the photo and that his studio
in Arklow has been engulfed with people trying to identify the elderly man.

"It's created a mad buzz," he said. "We have loads of people coming into the office to view
the pictures to see if it's their dead relation.

"I don't believe in ghosts or anything, but this has sent shivers down my spine"

Even the most ardent believers in the paranormal are sceptical as to whether this image is
that of a ghost.

Brian Gallagher, of Leinster Paranormal, an organisation which investigates paranormal
activity using "logic before paranormal", can't be sure of what was captured on camera that day.

"We see this sort of thing very often" he said.

"To be certain, we would have to interview everyone involved, but it is likely the person
in the picture is not a ghost but a reflection of some sort.

"Of course, we cannot be 100pc sure about its authenticity, but at this early stage I would
be sceptical."

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